Thomas M. Countryman: “I emphasized again the necessity to stand strong on preventing the shipment of technology in ballistic missiles to Iran.”

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.

We cannot allow these weapons usable materials, to be separated from spent nuclear fuel.

This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to China.

It is not a giveaway. It rather is a mutual recognition that the U.S. and China have reciprocal obligations to each other that each must meet.